World Leprosy Day: 'Not Just Disease, We Have To Fight Stigma Too' | The Quint

World Leprosy Day is celebrated on 30 January every year to spread awareness and to end the stigma and discrimination related to it. India is home to the world's largest leprosy patients within the world. On an average, 57 people per 10 lakh population in India are diagnosed with the disease. One such cluster of individuals live at Lok Matha Kusht Ashram colony in Delhi’s West Patel Nagar. Citizen journalist Jaya Reddy takes us to the homes of these patients and the problems they have to face.
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[@rok99100]

Wow…rare to see this kind of reporting nowadays…

[@tywincatforever77]

God bless these prescious people.i pray for you all 💖

[@tenzin6098]

Total leprosy case are 65,147 in india. Which is lees than 0.0001%.
Better govt can focus on industrial development than social development.

[@siddharth3485]

God bless them... .. jesus help them lord

[@skylinecreations.1634]

U r doing good work, God bless.. 🙏

[@arifaelnaz9929]

Kiya e bimari chune se felti hai, ya jeans me hota hai....?

[@avisheksarraf2046]

No it does not spread by touch

[@arifaelnaz9929]

@@avisheksarraf2046 that's good👍